Super Bowl 2013: 49ers will be greeted in New Orleans by huge picture of Kaepernick and Davis

NEW ORLEANS -- Some two months after winning in New Orleans, the 49ers will return Sunday night and settle in for a week-long journey to Super Bowl XLVII.

The team was scheduled to leave its Santa Clara facility at noon, arrive in New Orleans at 7:30 p.m. and hold press conferences an hour later at the team's downtown hotel, on Canal Street in the French Quarter.

When they arrive at that hotel, they'll find a gigantic picture on a garage wall of quarterback Colin Kaepernick and tight end Vernon Davis, who serve as bookends to the splashy headline: "NFC CHAMPIONS."

The Baltimore Ravens will fly into New Orleans on Monday at 4 p.m., and they're staying at a riverfront hotel only three blocks from the 49ers.

As the designated "home" team, the 49ers will get to use the facilities of the hometown Saints in nearby Metairie. The Ravens will practice at Tulane University. Practices are closed to the public and media, aside from a designated pool reporter each day.

Temperatures Sunday are ideal, in the 70s during the day and 60s at night.

On Monday, the 49ers will meet the media in the afternoon, starting with Harbaugh at 3:30 p.m. and followed by six players: running back Frank Gore, guard Alex Boone, linebacker NaVorro Bowman, cornerback Tarell Brown, fullback Bruce Miller and linebacker Aldon Smith.